Black Quotes
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In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed.
Barack Obama
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I have this L'Oral Superstar mascara, it's two sizes: One side is to make it thicker, and then you put the black layer on, and it gives a beautiful look.
Barbara Palvin
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It wasn't until I went to Korea out of high school and got exposed to the martial arts for the first time and was just completely enamored with the physical ability of the martial arts and making my black belt.
Chuck Norris
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We've come a long way from the days of Jim Crow, and yes, we elected a black president, but racism lives.
Bob Beckel
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The black snow that runs from the rooftops;
Georg Trakl
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Many people believe that determining who is 'black' is rather easy, a task simplified by the administration of the one-drop rule. Under the one-drop rule, any discernible African ancestry stamps a person as 'black.'
Randall Kennedy
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I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.
Lynn Samuels
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Nothing is all good or all bad, nothing is black or white, everything is just messy and human and difficult.
Bellamy Young
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Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.
Jack Schwartz
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Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
Barry Jenkins
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My name is Arsenio. That's a very unique name for a black man. In Greek, it means Leroy.
Arsenio Hall
